R2R Manager
Role: R2R Manager
Work Location: Bangalore India
Job Type: Permanent
Your Role
- End to end responsibility of supporting the Record to Report processes and operations across management units of the business, both Financial and Management reporting.
- Strong knowledge in analyzing the numbers and write meaningful business commentaries about the company performance.
- Should have an excellent coordination, verbal and written communication skills.
- Involvement of handling finance controllership role.
- Involvement of handling markets/ finance controllers and R2R Shared Service Centre operations
- Management of Month Close Process within Finance system, Preparation, presentation, inputs, and submissions. Validating Financial Reports, reconciliation, and query resolution
- Management of Intercompany Accounting (Billing, Allocations, Recharges and Reconciliations)
- Management of Fixed Assets Accounting (Additions, Transfer, write off and month end deliverables)
- Management of general accounting transactions, including opening balance roll forward, working with third party providers and local markets
- Experience in balance sheet account reconciliations review, approval, and enhancements.
- Working knowledge of R2R upstream and downstream experience (AP, AR, SCF and Management reporting).
- Experience in Tax accounting – Preparation of tax pack and Differed tax calculations
- Leading the 3PSP organization for entire R2R month end operations
Some of the key responsibilities of the role are:
- The individual has a natural bias for action and is willing to make a positive difference to achieve higher levels of performance.
- Takes direct ownership of objectives with high levels of self-assurance to achieve goals.
- Bringing powerful analysis to issues and rapidly absorbing new information and knowledge to apply new techniques, technology, and procedures.
- Fully involve in design set up and automation initiatives including testing
- Impactful and flexible in communicating and influencing the issues with the ability to work across metrices of functions.
- Accountable and responsible for ensuring Global finance controls
- Accountable for third party service provider / managed services operations
Skills and Experience Soft Skills:
- Should be able to lead and develop a team
- Should have a positive attitude and should be able to proactively get work done
- Strong problem solving, and analytical skills
- High Stakeholder Management - Must have the ability to effectively communicate with senior leaders inside and authorities outside of the company.
- Must be a self-starter with proven ability to take ownership of job responsibilities
Direct Reports
- Close working with 3P Service providers
Key Interfaces
- Head of Global Business Services
- Global Finance team
- Business workstream leads
- Country finance controllers/legal entity owners
- Operating Centre Heads for the key process
- Workstream Directors and teams
- Market Finance Controllers
- Operating Centre Heads for the key process’
- NFD Directors – Financial/Management Reporting
- Treasury and Controls team
- Global Business services leads
- Other service line teams for future scope
Critical success Factors for the Job Competencies
- Analytics and controls mind set
- Organizational Awareness
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience and awareness of working in a global role
- Ability to lead teams, assume peer leadership and influence key/senior stakeholders
- Ability to set and deliver on large change agenda
- Ability to influence constructively
- A strong customer and service centric mindset
- Ability to work under pressure and at times in ambiguous situations
Professional Qualification / Experience
- A chartered Accountant/semi qualified CA or MBA (Finance)
- Minimum 8-14 years’ experience preferably in FMCG industry
- Strong understanding of accounting standards, (IFRS, Indian GAAP, US GAAP) and global accounting policies
- Strong financial and business acumen
- Experience in Financial accounting, corporate finance, Global Shared services desirable
- Having working knowledge in Finance operations of SAP ECC / S4 Hana preferable